This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

A castle inspired by medieval architecture is hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

This recipe is set in stone.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.